problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

[David Figuera]

> I've fiddled with the cables, which seemed to help, but I've been
> unable to completely eliminate the errors. The disks are two Western
> Digital MyBooks Home Edition (1 TB per disk), connected to a Promise TX
> 4 SATA Controller:
> 
> atapci0 at pci0:1:6:0:  class=0x018000 card=0x3d17105a chip=0x3d17105a
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Promise Technology Inc'
>     device     = 'PDC40718-GP SATA 300 TX4 Controller'
>     class      = mass storage

I have a similar setup, same card, two WD disks.

On 6.3 it was affected by the problem you mention, but when I moved to 
7.0, it disapeared.